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Easter for the live, Hallowe'en for the dead

Besides Christmas Day, New Year, Valentine's Day, and April Fool's Day, there are other festivals and traditions which are not so well known to foreigners. Among these, Easter is for the live, so celebrated with eggs, chicks and bunny (rabbit); while Halloe'en for the dead, celebrated with frightening costumes, pumpkin lanterns, and scary tricks. Guy Fawkes Day and Remembrance Day are social and political festival, the former related to the struggle between Protestant and Catholics, the latter related to the World War I and II.

Easter
The word originates from the name of a goddess of fertility and sunrise whose feast was celebrated at the spring equinox, We may say that Easter related to east, as this word also means "wind from the east". Christians adopted the traditional festival name and many of the celebratory practices for their Mass of Christ's resurrection. Easter is celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Chinese people may compare Easter with the the Clear and Bright Festival(Ching Ming), which is a day that people set out to sweep and dust the graves of their ancestors.

Hallowe'en
One of the important festivals is Hallowe'en. Hallowe'en is the evening before All Saints' Day; often devoted to pranks played by young people.

31 October, is a very ancient festival. Young people will often dress up in frightening costumes to play 'trick or treat'. Giving them sweets or chocolates might stop them playing a trick on you. Some times people carry lantern made out of pumpkins with a candle inside.

The word Hallowe'en has double ls and double es. I also see people people put an apostrophe between two 'e's in writing, because it originates from the contraction of All Hallow Even, well, while "hallow" means "a saint or holy person".

Guy Fawkes Night
5 November, is an occasion when people in Great Britain set off fireworks at home or in special displays. The origin of this celebration was an event in 1605, when a group of Catholics led by Guy Fawkes failed in their plan to kill the Protestant king with a bomb in the House of Parliament.

Remembrance Day
11 November, commemorates those who died fighting in WWI, and WW2 and other wars. Many people wear poppies (a red flower) in memory of those who died. At 11 a.m. there is a two-minutes silence.

Once upon a time there was a kingdom with... a fat king! He was very fat and lazy, he had 10 servants to help him to eat, and helped him to go to bed, and lots of other things. His first servant served the food on the table, the second servant put food on the spoon, the third servant opened his mouth, the fourth servant put the food in his mouth, the fifth servant had to help him chew! The sixth one fed him soup, the seventh one blew the soup if it was too hot, the eighth one wiped his mouth with a wet towel, the ninth one fed him desserts, and the tenth one put drinks in his mouth.
The king was ''so'' lazy that he didn't even walk! He was carried around by some servants.

One day the chairs for the king were braking so the servants had to make special beds, then the…

We have a new netbook computer, and don't know where to find network key, which is needed to setup wireless connection.

A network key may also be called WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) key or WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) key.

A wireless network key is a security feature that prevents unauthorized users from accessing a wireless network. An unprotected network is an unlocked virtual door, anybody within range can piggyback on the network undetected.

I use Virgin media broadband with a Virgin media wireless router, this router has a WPA key taped on the router, that WPA key is an English word consisting of 10 letters.

To tape network key on the router is a good idea, because we may never lose or forget a wireless network key as long as we possess the router.

Heraldry probably began with the knights in armour. When wearing a helmet in battle or in tournaments a knight could not be recognised; so he used symbols to decorate his shield and surcoat. The surcoat was the loose garment worn over the armour to protect it from rain or hot sun and actually was the "coat-of-arms"; it was decorated on the front and back with the same device as on the shield. The correct expression for entire design is an achievement. An achievement consists of the shield, helmet, rest, wreath, mantling and motto. These are the main parts. To them can be added supporters and a compartment.

In the centre is the most important part, the shield. The surface of the shield is called the field and on it the colourful charges are placed. The shield is called the arms or coat-of-arms and can be drawn in any shape - in an upright position or slanting, which is the position it would fall into if hung on a peg. In Heraldry it slants to dexter.